Java 14

Elavarasan PK — May 12, 2023 in Java 14

Java 14 – Text Blocks

Java 13 introduces text blocks to handle multiline strings like JSON/XML/HTML etc as is a preview feature. With Java 14, we’ve second preview of Text Blocks. Now Text Block have following enhancements −

  1. \ − indicates an end of the line in case new line is to be started.
  2. \s − indicates a single space.

Example

Consider the following example −

ApiTester.java

public class APITester {

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      String stringJSON = "{\r\n" 
         + "\"Name\" : \"Mahesh\"," 
         + "\"RollNO\" : \"32\"\r\n" 
         + "}";  
   
      System.out.println(stringJSON);
      String textBlockJSON = """ {"name" : "Mahesh", \ "RollNO" : "32" } """;
      System.out.println(textBlockJSON);
	  
	   System.out.println("Contains: " + textBlockJSON.contains("Mahesh"));
	   System.out.println("indexOf: " + textBlockJSON.indexOf("Mahesh"));
	   System.out.println("Length: " + textBlockJSON.length());
   } 
}

Compile and Run the program

$javac -Xlint:preview --enable-preview -source 14 APITester.java

$java --enable-preview APITester

Output

{
"Name" : "Mahesh","RollNO" : "32"
}
{
   "name" : "Mahesh",   "RollNO" : "32"
}

Contains: true
indexOf: 15
Length: 45

About the Author: Elavarasan PK

Technical Specialist, Intersoft Data Labs